Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-30

in the Slough of Despond, and has said:-
gMy heart is not right with God, and
think must have made mistake, and in
stead of being child of light I am child
of darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as
Ifeel and be Christian" And he has
gone to his minister for consolation, and he
has collected Flavel's books, and Cecil's
books, and Baxter's books, and read and
read and read, and prayed and prayed and
prayed, and wept and wept and wept, and
groaned and groaned and groaned. My
brother, your trouble is not with the heart,
it is gastric disorder or rebellion of the
liver. You need physician more than you
do a Clergyman. 1t is not sin that blots out
your hope of heaven, but bile. 1t not only
yellows your eyeball and furs yonr tongue,
and makes your headache, but swoops up
on yonr soul in dejections and fore-b -bodings.
The devil is after you. He has failed to de-
spoil your character, and he does the next
best thing for him-ne ruff1es your peace OF
mind. When he says that you are not a
forgiven soul, when he says that you are
not right with God, when he says that you
will never get to heaven, he lies. You are
Just as sure of heaven as though you were
there already. But Satan, finding that he
cannot keep you out of the promised land
of Canaan, has determined that the spies
shall not bring you any of the Eschol grapes
beforehand, aud that you shall have nothing
but prckly pear and crab-apple. You ar
Just as good now under the cloud as you
were whom you were accustomed to rise IN
the morning at 5 o'clock to pray and sing
"Halleluiah, it's donev' My friend, Rev.
Dr. Joseph Fl. Jones, of Philadelphia, a
translated spirit now, wrote book entitled,
"Men, Moral and Physical" in which he
shows how different the same things may
appear to different people. he says: CAT
ter the great battle on the Mincio in 1859,
betwee the French aud Sardinians on the
one side and the Austrians on the other, so
disastrous to the latter, the defeated army
retreated followed by the victors. A de
scription of the march of each ARMY is given
by two correspondents of the London Times,
one of whom travelled with the successful
host, the other with the defeated. The
difference in views and statements of che
same place, scenes and events, is remarka-
Bile. The former are said to be marching
through beautiful and luxuriant country
during the day, and at night encamping
where they are supplied with an abundance
of the best provisions, and all sorts of rural
dainties There is nothing of war about
the proceeding except its stimulus and ex-
citement. On the side of the poor Austri-
ans it is just the reverse. In his letter of
the same date, describing the same place,
and march over the same road, the writer
can scarcely find words to set forth the suf-
fering, impatience and disgust existing
around him. What was pleasant to the
former was intolerable to the latter. What
makes all this difference? asks the Journal
ist. One condition only: The French are
victorious, the Austrians have been defeat
ed. The contrast may convey distinctive
idea of the extent to which moral impress
sions affect the efficiency of the soldier
So, my dear brother, the road you are ira
Yelling is the same you have been travelling
a long while, but the difference in your phys
ical conditions makes it look different, and
therefore the two reports you have given of
yourself are as widely different s the re-
ports iu the London Times from the two
Edward Payson, some
times so far up on the Mount that it seemed
as if the centripetal force of earth could no
longer hold him. sometimes through phys
ical disorder was so far down that it seemed
as if the neither world would clutch him.
Glorious William Cowper was as good as
good could be, and will be loved in the
Christian Church as long as it sings his
hymn beginning, There is a fountain filed
with BLOOD" and his hymn beginning, "Oh,
for closer walk with God,' and his hymn
beginning, what various hindrances we
meet" and his hymn beginning, ''God
moves in mysterious way" Yet SO was
be overcome of melancholy, or black bile,
that il was only through the mistake of the
cab driver, who took him to wrong place,
instead of the river bank, that he did not
commit suicide.
Spiritual condition SO nightly affected by
the physical state, what great opportunity
this gives to the Christian physician, for he
can feel at the same time both the pulse of
the body and the pulse of the soul, and he
can administer to both at once, and if medi
clue is needed he can give that, and ifspirit-
ual counsel is needed he can give that-an
earthly and divine prescription at the same
time-aud call on not only the apothecary
of earth, but the pharmacy of heaven. Alb.
that ia the kind of doctor want at my bed
side when I get sick, one that cannot only
count out the right number of drops, but
who can also pray. That is the kind of
doctor l have had in my house when sick
ness or death came. I do not want any of
your profligate or atheistic doctors around
nv loved ones when the balances of life are
trembling A doctor who has gone through
the medical college, and in dissecting- groom
has traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism, and found no God in any of
the laoy rinths, is fool, and cannot doctor
me or mine But oh, the Christian doctors!
What comfort they have been in many of
our households. And they ought to have a
warm place in our prayers, as we'll as praise
on our tongues. Dear old DR.. Skilman!
Nv fathers doctor, my mothers doctor, in
she village home. He carried all the conf
drncss of all the families for ten miles
around. We all felt better az soon as we
saw him enter the house. His face pro-
nounced a beatitude before he said word
He welcomed all of us children into life, and
he closed the old peoples eyes when they
entered the last slumber. think | know
what Christ said to him when the old Doctor
got through bis work. think be was
greeted with the words, Come in, Doctor.
was sick and ye visited mel" bless God
that the number of Christian physicians is
multiplying. and some OF the students of
the medical colleges are here to day, and I
hail you, and bless you, and ordain you
to the tender, beautiful, heaven-d descended
work ofa Christian physician and when you
take your diploma from the Long Island
Medical College, to look after the perishable
body, be sure also to get diploma from
the skies to look after the imperishable
soul. Let all Christian physicians unite
with ministers of the Gospel in persuading
good people that it is not because God is
against them that they sometimes feel de-
pressed, but because of their diseased body.
suppose David, the psalmist, was no more
pious when he called on everything human
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